Boom Supersonic made history today (Jan. 28) when its XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time.

NASA and Lockheed Martin recently released photos of the X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet conducting tests of its afterburner, ...

Updated on 04/13/2021: Hello. First off why is it absolutely impossible to get ahold of anyone at Concorde College? Second, thank you for not helping me find a job and putting me into financial ruin.

Boom Supersonic is one step closer to launching the spiritual heir to the Concorde. The US firm's XB-1 prototype reached a transonic speed of Mach 0.95 during Test Flight 11 on January 10, 2025. The ...

The last Concorde flew over 20 years ago now ... The space agency recently announced it had run its X-59 engine with maximum afterburner for the first time.

A plane dubbed the ‘son of the Concorde’ that could fly from London to New York in three and a half hours has completed its eleventh test flight. Boom Technologies say their plane is ‘on ...

SON of Concorde' XB-1 jet is "on track" to break the sound barrier in early 2025, makers of the supersonic plane have announced. In its first major update of the year, bosses at Colorado-based ...

The afterburner is a kind of second combustion chamber that takes the hot gases expelled at the end of the turbofan’s cycle and reignites them to produce even more power. If you are familiar with how ...

with the production Tu-144S requiring an afterburner on its Kuznetsov NK-144A engines just like the Concorde, before the revised Tu-144D removing the need for afterburners with the Koliesov RD36 ...